A pregnant Texas teenager died an agonizing death from sepsis after doctors refused to abort her fetus even after she began to miscarry. She is one of at least two pregnant women who have died after doctors delayed treating miscarriages due to Texas' strict abortion laws, according to a report by ProPublica. Navaeh Crain, 18, died an agonizing death from …
Candace Fails poses for a portrait holding a picture of her late daughter, Nevaeh Crain, at her home in Vidor, Texas on October 24, 2024. “I know it sounds selfish, and God knows I would rather have both of them, but if I had to choose,” Fails said, “I would have chosen my daughter.” At her home in Vidor, Texas …
ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Now on Crain’s third hospital visit, an obstetrician insisted on two ultrasounds to “confirm fetal demise,” a nurse wrote, before moving her to intensive care. “Mom, my stomach is still hurting,” she said into the dark bedroom at 3 a.m. “I’m in a lot of pain.” Fails drove Broussard and Crain to another …
